BILL NUMBER: AB 1730	CHAPTERED  09/19/00

	CHAPTER   540
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 19, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 18, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   SEPTEMBER 1, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 29, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 28, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 7, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JULY 3, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 15, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 16, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 2, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cardenas
   (Coauthor:  Assembly Member Honda)
   (Coauthors:  Senators Escutia, Polanco, and Solis)

                        JANUARY 5, 2000

   An act relating to lead poisoning, making an appropriation
therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1730, Cardenas.  Lead poisoning prevention.
   Existing law provides for a residential lead-based paint hazard
reduction program implemented and administered by the State
Department of Health Services.  Existing law establishes within the
State Department of Health Services a program to meet the federal
requirements of the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act
of 1992 and the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 and
requires the adoption of regulations for this purpose.
   Existing law, the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act of 1991,
requires the department to implement a program in which children are
evaluated and screened for risk of lead poisoning, and provided with
medically necessary followup services pursuant to appropriate case
management.
   Existing law imposes a fee on certain manufacturers and other
persons formerly, presently, or both formerly and presently engaged
in the stream of commerce of lead or products containing lead, or who
are otherwise responsible for identifiable sources of lead.
Existing law requires that the fees collected be deposited in the
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Fund that is required to be
expended for purposes of the act upon appropriation by the
Legislature.
   This bill would appropriate $1,514,000 from the General Fund and
$317,000 from the Federal Trust Fund to the department for specified
child lead poisoning programs.
   This bill would also require the Bureau of State Audits to conduct
a followup assessment of the effectiveness of specified State
Department of Health Services child lead poisoning program
regulations and to submit the results of the assessment to specified
legislative committees by May 1, 2001.
  This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.
   Appropriation:  yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  (a) There is hereby appropriated the sum of one million
five hundred fourteen thousand dollars ($1,514,000) from the General
Fund to the State Department of Health Services as follows:
   (1) The sum of one million thirteen thousand dollars ($1,013,000)
in augmentation of the appropriation made in Item 4260-111-0001 of
the Budget Act of 2000 for Program 20.40 Primary Care and Family
Health to fund lead poisoning screening or evaluation of children.
   (2) The sum of three hundred one thousand dollars ($301,000) in
augmentation of the appropriation made in Item 4260-101-0001 of the
Budget Act of 2000 for Program 20.10.030 Benefits (Medical Care and
Services) to fund lead poisoning screening or evaluation of children.

   (3) The sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) in
augmentation of Item 4260-001-0001 of the Budget Act of 2000 for
Program 10 Public and Environmental Health to fund outreach to
licensed health care providers to expand screening of children at
risk of lead poisoning.  It is the intent of the Legislature that in
allocating funds appropriated in future years for this program in
order to fund child lead poisoning prevention activities, priority
consideration shall be given to community-based organizations and
nonprofit organizations.
   (b) The sum of three hundred seventeen thousand dollars ($317,000)
is hereby appropriated from the Federal Trust Fund to the State
Department of Health Services in augmentation of Item 4260-101-0890
of the Budget Act of 2000 for Program 20.10.030 Benefits (Medical
Care and Services) to fund lead poisoning screening or evaluation of
children.
  SEC. 2.  (a) In April 1999 the California State Auditor released a
report on the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention program, entitled
"Department of Health Services:  Has made little progress in
protecting 21California's children from lead poisoning" in which it
strongly recommended that the department adopt regulations on
screening for lead poisoning.
   (b) The Bureau of State Audits shall conduct a followup assessment
of the effectiveness of regulations to be implemented by the
department the purpose of which are to increase the number of at-risk
children being identified and that receive screening and evaluation
for lead poisoning.  The bureau shall also include in its assessment
the extent to which the department has addressed the other
recommendations made in the bureau's April 1999 report.  The bureau
shall submit the assessment to the Senate Committee on Health and
Human Services and the Assembly Committee on Health by May 1, 2001.
  SEC. 3.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to improve the health and well-being of lead poisoned
children in California through increased identification, screening,
and evaluation of children at risk, at the earliest possible time, it
is necessary that this act go into immediate effect.
